place

Starr Historic District

Central Indiana Registered Historic Place stubsCentral Indiana geography stubsGreek Revival architecture in IndianaHistoric American Buildings Survey in IndianaHistoric districts in Richmond, Indiana
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in IndianaItalianate architecture in IndianaNRHP infobox with nocatNational Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, IndianaQueen Anne architecture in IndianaSecond Empire architecture in IndianaUse mdy dates from August 2023
Church and house in the Starr HD
Church and house in the Starr HD

The Starr Historic District is a neighborhood of historic buildings and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. The district encompasses 102 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Richmond. It developed between about 1853 and 1915 and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, and Queen Anne style architecture. Included in the district is a former Hicksite Quaker Meeting House, now the Wayne County Historical Museum and the Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church and Andrew F. Scott House. Other notable buildings include the Miller-Mendenhall House (1875), Dickinson Log House (1825), Starr-Cadwalader House (1861), and Clem Gaar House (1883).Two houses in the District were the former residences of Orville and Wilbur Wright, during their childhood. A long-gone garage at the back of one of these houses was the location of their first bicycle repair 'shop'. This info was reprinted from a Richmond Palladium-Item article. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Starr Historic District (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Starr Historic District
North C Street, Richmond

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Starr Historic DistrictContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 39.8325 ° E -84.884722222222 °
placeShow on map

Address

North C Street

North C Street
47374 Richmond
Indiana, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Church and house in the Starr HD
Church and house in the Starr HD
Share experience

Nearby Places

Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church
Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church

Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church is an architecturally significant building located at 11th and North "A" Streets in Richmond, Indiana. Designed by the Cleveland, Ohio architectural partnership of Sidney Badgley and William H. Nicklas the building was begun in 1904 and dedicated on May 13, 1906. The building committee had visited the Badgley and Nicklas-designed St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church (now St. Paul's Memorial United Methodist Church) which had been built by the Clement Studebaker family in South Bend, Indiana and the two churches have strikingly similar design elements in the sanctuaries. Reid Church was paid for by Daniel G. Reid in memory of his parents Daniel Reid and Anna Gray Reid. The church interiors and windows were designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Tiffany Studios. The original organ designed by Hook and Hastings is still in use, though it was rebuilt in 1958 by the Wicks Organ Company. The organ was featured with a recital during the Organ Historical Society's 2007 convention in Indianapolis. During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan was a powerful political and social force in Indiana. In 1922 the Klan was introduced to Richmond by Robert Lyons, who began by recruiting at Reid Church, where his father, Samuel Ross Lyons, had been pastor years earlier. Robert Lyons was eventually appointed national chief of staff for the Klan.Membership having dwindled to a few dozen people, the congregation was dissolved November 5, 2017, and the church closed. The building was listed on the "Ten Most Endangered List" of Indiana Landmarks.